與天空爆炸同樣來自德州的白墨河，曾於 2016 來台參與 P Festival 的演出大獲好評。睽違多年， Rob 與 Michael 再次找齊室內樂樂手加入，回到大家最熟悉的白墨河，重拾了老朋友們最溫暖、完整的聲音。
沒有制式化的公式鋪陳，如細水，如迷霧，時而暖流，在墜入心臟前一瞬間又被撈起，這是這張專輯給人的感受，鋼琴的按鍵力道，從耳朵蔓延開來，直達茫然者的隧道。- MIZ
A decade-plus on the road, near-constant musical output, and shifting creative priorities caused the revered Austin duo, comprised of multi-instrumentalists Rob Lowe and Michael Muller, to soberly assess the bands future. What, in the form of Balmorhea, was there left to say? And did they have the energy to say it?
Stranger, the groups maximalist, genre-leaping full-length from 2012, had already seemed to trace the groups farthest bounds. And, over the years, theyd worked with a roving cast of accomplished string and rhythm players to craft a glassy-eyed, sage-brushed, instrumental Americana that, while celebrated in The New Yorker, Pitchfork and The Atlantic, among myriad other press, and attracting the film, ad, and television worlds risked pigeonholing them for good.
As they had in the beginning, in 2006, Muller and Lowe worked simply and with restraint, letting intuition guide them as they molded the 10 elegant, spacious gestures that comprise Clear Language. A relaxed, clear-eyed wonder tumbles through these songs like herons lancing through Kerouacs hungermaking fog. Clear Language is the sound of two friends transmitting unfettered meaning in a milieu choked by double-speak at every turn.
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